Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-19

half of secular interests. / wish that this
winter our ponds and our rivers and our
Cspitoline Grounds might all quake with
the heel and the shout Of the swift skater.
l wish that when the warm weather comes
the graceful oar might dip the stream, and
the evening-tide be resonant with boat
mans song, the bright Prov splitting the
crystalline billow. We shall have the
smooth and grassy lawn, and we will call
out people of all occupations and profes-
sions and ask them to Join in the ball
players sport. You will come back from
these outdoor exercises and recreations with
strength in your arm, and color in your
cheek, and
A FLASH IN YOUR EYE,
and courage in your heart In this great
battle that is opening against the kingdom
of darkness we want not only consecrat-
ed soul, but strong arm and stout lunges
and might muscle. l bless God that there
are SO many recreations in which We may
engage for the strengthening Of the body.
for the clearing of the intellect, for the
illumination OF the soul.
There is still another form Of recreation
which | commend to You, and that is the
pleasure of uoiug good. have seen young
men, weak and cross and sour and repell.
ing in their disposition, who by one heav-
emily touch have wakened up and become
blessed and buoyant the ground under
their feet and the sky over their heads
breaking forth into music. 'Oh," says
some Young man in the house te-day, Il
should like that recreation above all 9TH
ers, but have not the means" Ny dear
brother, let us take an account Of
stock of this morning. You have
large estate, il you only re.
alize it. Two hands. Two feet. You
will have, perhaps, during the next year
at least ten dollars for charitable contribu-
tion. You will have twenty-five hundred
cheerful looks, If you want to employ
them. You will have five thousand pleas
ant words, if you want to speak them.
Now what an amount that is 10 start
with
You go ont tomorrow morning and you
see case Of real destituton by the way
side. You give him two cents. The blind
man hears the pennies rattle in his hat,
and he says, Thank you, sir; God bless
You" You pass down the street, trying
to look indifferent; but you feel from the
very depth OF your soul a profound satis-
faction that you made that man happy.
You 90 on still further, and find poor
boy with wheelbarrow, trying TO get il
up on the curbstone. He fails in the at
tempt. You say, Stand back, my lad;
let me try" You push it up on the curb
stone for him, and pass on. lie wonders
who that well.dressed man was that
helped him.
YOU DID 4 KINDNESS
TO the hoy, but you did a great JOY TO your
own soul. iOu will not get over 1t all the
week.
On the street, tomorrow morning, you
will STE q sick man passing along. "Ah,"
you say, what can do TO make this man
happy? He certainly does not want
he il not poor, but he is sick.
Give him one OF those twenty-five hundred
cheerful looks that you have garncred up
for the whole year. Look joy and hope
fulness into his soul. II will thrill him
and there will he o reaction upon
your own soul. Going n little farther on,
you will come to the store Of friend who
is embarras sed in business matters. You
will 90 in and say, What fine store you
have! think business will brighten up,
and you will have more custom after n
while. | think there is coming a great
TO all the country. GOOD
morning You pass out You have
helped that young man, and you have
helped yourself Aud that night you go
home; you sit by the fire, you talk lit.
tie, you sing little, you laugh little;
you say, IL rcallJ don't kTow what il the
matter with me. never felt so splend'
idly in my life" will tell what is the
matter with you. You spent only two
cents out of the ten dc lars; you have con-
trihuted one out Of sentyiive hundred
cheerful looks; you lave given ten, iif-
teen, or twenty OF thu live thousand pleas
ant words you are gOLg TO speak during
the year; you have with your own hands
helped the boy with the wheelbarrow, and
you feel in body, Mint and soul the thrill
of that recreation. Which do you think
was the happier-ColJnel Gardiner, who
sat with his elbow on table spread with
all extravagant vianis, looking of at
dog on the rug, saying, "Ifow would like
to change places with MIN; I've the dog
and he he Colonel Gardiner" or those
two Moravian missionaries who wanted to
go into the laZarettO for the sake Of
ATTENDING THE SICK.
and they were told, "If you go in there,
You will never come ont. We never
allow any one TO come ont, for he would
bring the contagon." Then they made
their wills and went in, first to help the
sick, and then 20 die. Which WA the
Gardiner, or the Moray
ian missionaries dying for others? Was il
all sacrifice when the missionaries wanted
to bring the Gospel TO the negroes at the
and, being denied the privilege,
sold themselves into slavery, standing
side by side, and lying side by side down
in the very ditch of suffrage, in order that
thsy might bring those men up TO life and
God and heaven? Oh, there liz a thrill in
the Joy OF doing good, II is the most
recreation 20 which a man
ever puts his hand or his head or his
heart.
But, before closing, want 10 impress
upon you that mere secular entertain
lnents are not ft foundation for your
soul 10 build on.
Sas reading ofs woman who had gone
al the rounds OF sinful Amusement, and
she came 10 d e. She said, 81 will die to
night at six o'clock" oh" they said,
II guess not you don't seem 70 be sick"
i shall die at six o'clock, and my soul
will be lost. know IL will be lost.
have sinned away my day OF grace" The
noon came. They desired TO seek religious
counsel
"Oh," she said, ut il of no use Ny
lay il gone. ! have been all the rounds
,f worldly pleasure, and il is too late. ]
shall die tonight at g o'clock" The day
wore away, and il came to o'clock, and
10 o'clock, and she cried out at 3 O'Clock:
Destroyed spirits, ye shall not have me
yet; il il not six it il not SIX" The
vent by, and the shadows began
10 gather, and the clock struck six, and
while it was striking her soul went. What
1our God will call for us do not know
whether o'clock tonight, or 3o'clock
his afternoon, or at one O'Clock, or at this
Sitting where you are, falling
Onward, or standing where you are, drop
ping down, where would you 70 70?